Category: This Week In Backgrounds

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all NOT in the Midwest with me braving the below 0 temperatures. There have been a few acquisitions announced this week. If you’re keeping track, they’re the ones I alluded to in my last blog post. In addition, I got a really cool demo of a newer product out of India that I think deserves everyone’s attention. Community Brands, a division of Ministry Brands, the leading provider of cloud-based software for associations,

Well, the “this week in backgrounds” title continues to be misleading. It should be “recently” but hey, my blog, my rules! The acquisitions market is very hot right now– lots happening and more coming soon. Not only do we have CRA’s buying other CRA’s but private equity and other strategic buyers continue to make their bets on the 2.9 billion dollar screening market. First, Appriss announced last week the acquisition of Crime Finders, Inc. (CFi),

Sorry, it’s been a bit since I’ve blogged, holidays, yada yada yada. Typically, this is the slowest time for our industry so there’s not much to write about. However, Today Sterling announced the acquisition of Australian screening firm, National Crime Check. National Crime Check (NCC) is widely recognized for its high-quality service, superior technology and automation, and its deep client-centric focus. NCC operates out of Adelaide, South Australia. “We admire the hard work and determination

It took me over a week to write this blog, I was a bit overwhelmed by what I saw at last week’s HR Tech conference in Las Vegas and I wanted to let it all sink in. This conference has gotten so big and, in many ways, so much better than other conferences for background screeners. I remember going to my first HR Tech conference in Chicago so many years ago, there were only a

Looks like background screeners have been busy this week, more so than in previous weeks. Sterling Talent Solutions finally relaunched their small business offering, Global HR Research acquired easyBackgrounds, Accurate Background earned a big honor, and InfoMart launched driver qualification monitoring. Let’s begin with Sterling. This has been in the works for a long time, but it appears they have finally launched their small business offering, SterlingNow. I got a demo of this at this

Well, summer is half way over and while it’s not raining with background screening news there are still some exciting things happening this week. First, NAPBS will be pursuing litigation against the District Court of Bentonville, Arkansas. Second, Workforce Magazine has released their annual “Hot List” of background screening companies. Lastly, Sterling Talent Solutions just named Josh Peirez as their new co-CEO. Bentonville, Arkansas has essentially stopped allowing screeners and record researchers access to records

Welcome to my new (hopefully) weekly series, This Week In Backgrounds (TWIB). I hope to round up all the latest news for and about background screeners, end users and the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). Over the past few weeks a few screening firms have announced their plans to launch criminal monitoring products to the sharing economy; specifically to companies such as Lyft and Uber. Checkr has developed their product in concert with